Smart Cleanup Tools

Smart Cleanup Tools is an easy to use, powerful plugin for database cleanup with total of 38 cleanup, reset and removal tools. With this plugin you can remove data that is no longer in use, or it is unneeded.

Also, it can help you restore database overhead and speed up database operations. Plugin supports WordPress multisite, and it has few tools designed for the Network administration.

Powerful Database Cleanup for WordPress

Cleanup will be more effective if done after several months of normal database use. For example cleanup on www.dev4press.com website, cleanup was done 6 months after previous cleanup. Plugin saved amazing 2/3 of the database space, and database from 192MB was scaled down to 63MB. That is 129MB of junk and unneeded data. Full test is available here.

Quick cleanup: one click full cleanup

Main plugin panel shows quick cleanup tool with overview of active tools, found records for removal and estimated size to be recovered. Quick cleanup uses all cleanup tools. If you want to review everything before cleanup, open Cleanup panel for list of all available tools.

Cleanup Tools: 23 in version 4.3

Smart Cleanup Tools contains 24 cleanup tools that can remove most of the obsolete or orphaned data in the WordPress database. You can see estimated records that each tool will remove. You can also disable each tool from plugin Settings panel.

List of cleanup tools

Remove orphaned terms records (v3.2)

Remove oEmbed cached postmeta records (v3.1)

Remove orphaned relationships records (v3.0)

Remove expired transient records (also in multisite mode) (v2.5)

Remove GravityForms spammed submissions (v2.1)

Remove GravityForms trashed submissions (v2.1)

Remove auto-draft posts records

Remove trashed posts records

Remove spammed posts records

Remove published posts revisions records

Remove orphaned posts revisions records

Remove trashed comments records

Remove unapproved comments records

Remove spammed comments records

Remove empty postmeta records

Remove orphaned postmeta records

Remove empty comment meta records

Remove orphaned comment meta records

Remove orphaned comments records

Remove RSS feeds cache

Remove empty user meta records

Remove transient records (also in multisite mode)

Remove database overhead (also in multisite mode)

Removal Tools: 11 in version 4.3

Removal tools can remove data that might be still in use but no longer needed. It can delete attachments, posts, comments or terms based on different criteria. Before using these tools, you should always have backup ready.

List of removal tools

Remove draft posts records (v4.3)

Remove attachments with missing files (v4.0)

Remove attachments with missing parent posts (v4.0)

Remove attachments that are not attached (v4.0)

Remove missing post types posts (v4.0)

Remove missing taxonomies terms (v4.0)

Remove missing unassigned taxonomy terms (v4.0)

Remove missing all available taxonomy terms (v4.0)

Remove Akismet comments logs (v2.5)

Remove user agent data for all comments

Remove pingback comments

Reset Tools: 4 in version 4.2

With reset tools you can remove some data from database, and it will be recreated to default values. Removing widgets from sidebars is useful when changing themes, and refreshing rewrite rules is useful when having problems with permalinks.

List of reset tools

Remove all post edit locks (v4.1)

Reset all sidebars

Reset rewrite rules

Reset plugins data and statistics (also in multisite mode)

Scheduled Jobs for automatic cleanup

You can schedule cleanup jobs to run at any time, they can run once or they can run on a repeat with selected period. All cleanup reports can be saved into files.

Export and Import of settings and jobs

All plugin settings and settings for scheduled jobs can be exported into file and later imported back.